All Writings
A selection of work spanning magazine journalism, cultural essays, and creative fiction.
Anthology Contribution
Published in: South Carolina Emerging Writers Anthology
A short story selected for inclusion in the South Carolina Emerging Writers Anthology, spotlighting emerging literary voices.
Fruitful Blessings
Published in: Sporting Classics Daily
Fruitful Blessing – Dispatch Oct. 21, 2021 My boss, Sporting Classics’ Editorial Director, Scott E. Mayer, had inquired about us going fishing on a Friday after work, a few weeks back. He added that we would be doing so at a pond located in the b...
Rock Island Auction Company – Feature
Published in: Sporting Classics (Guns & Hunting issue)
An on-site interview and collaborative feature exploring historic firearms, collecting culture, and the high-end auction world, published in Sporting Classics.
Selected Essays & Commentary
Published in: Quiddity Press
A body of 100+ long-form essays examining political climates, cultural shifts, and geopolitical developments, published on Quiddity Press from 2018 to 2024.
This Is Your Rifle
Published in: Dispatches from the Caribbean (Sporting Classics Daily)
An investigative, narrative piece blending personal experience, regional travel, and cultural reflection from time spent in the Caribbean, published in Sporting Classics Daily.
Meaning in an Evening with Zach Deptuy
Published in: Star-News
Meaning in an Evening with Zach Deputy Wilmington, NC August, 2017 After getting the Okay from the doorman (a simultaneous nod, wink, and smile; forearm jutting upward, protracted thumb pointing backwards over his shoulder) myself and a couple clos...
On Neighborliness: or, the Predicament of a Shared Fate
Published in: Quiddity Press
On Neighborliness: or, the Predicament of a Shared Fate "You may drive nature out with a pitchfork, yet she'll constantly be running back, and before you know it, will burst triumphantly through your foolish caprices." – Horace In the closing da...
On Decadence: and Our Relationship to Western Liberty
Published in: Quiddity Press
On Decadence: and our Relationship to Western Liberty "This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." -The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance In an interview, John Ratzenberger (Cliff Clavan, from Cheers) lamented with, seemin...
That Reason Wonder May Diminish
Published in: Quiddity Press
That Reason Wonder May Diminish "And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise…" –Genesis 3:6 "Ineluctable modality of the visible: at least that if no mor...
The Round at Trustus
Published in: Jasper Magazine
Friday, February 7, 2020; 7:30pm~? A lone cigarette there in repose on the second step, I do not know where the stage ceases or proceeds— its ember’d tip faintly aglow, a soft plume of smoke, upward it goes; a moment anew it leads. O’ but a dream,...
As Crepuscule Closes In
Published in: Sporting Classics Daily
A faint zephyr curled the tip of her hair. Shoulder length. The lapping of edge water murmuring. Inveigling liquid whispers heralding dusk – some primal tongue understood by the ancients – as myriad golden shines danced atop aquatic undulations. Leav...
The Heroism of Forgiveness
Published in: Quiddity Press
The Heroism of Forgiveness “Maybe they tricked me into fighting alone so that I, and everyone, would just lose.” –Stefan Molyneux “We take but three steps from feathers to iron.” –John Keats “Sometimes people need to be forgiven... but if you ...
Source Documents
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